who will be coming?

[small_magics]

Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.

The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.

Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.

Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.

Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.

Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.

Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.

Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.

Etty is bringing only Nona.

Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.

Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.

Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.

Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.

Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.

Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.

Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.

Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.

And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.

Comments

[tearingup]

One Soph is enough for all their purposes at the moment. And wow, her boyfriend knows how to kiss.

[toblameforit]

Yes. Yes he does. He's so glad Ripper noticed!

[keyed_up]

Did Bella really have issues about this, what issues, sharing is fun.

[toblameforit]

It really is, isn't it?

Mmm kisses kisses.

[tearingup]

Mmmmmmm shirtless kisses. The shirtless part is important. Both for immediate makeout-related reasons (skin!) and because Tony and Soph seem to really like that Ripper is shirtless, and Ripper really likes when that happens.

[keyed_up]

Soph definitely really likes all the hot-boy-shirtlessness going on around here!

[toblameforit]

There is definitely a lot of really liking going around!

[keyed_up]

Soph can be heard giggling softly to herself from her beanbag vantage point occasionally. It's difficult to actually catch her peeking for more than a moment, but she presumably is staring to her heart's content when neither of them is looking right at her.

[toblameforit]

Tony hardly looks. On account of he is busy. Happily, happily busy.

[tearingup]

Ripper, once he has glanced over a few times, also stops looking. Because if she only looks at them when they are not looking at her, then clearly he should just let her get on with it! Also, kissing Tony occupies a lot of attention. He's just so kissable. And so happy about it. Mmmmmmmmm.

[keyed_up]

"Eeeee," giggles Soph quietly. (She doesn't want to distract them from what they're doing.)

[tearingup]

They are magnificently undistracted.

[keyed_up]

Yaaaaay! Carry on making out, hot boys, Soph will just be over here grinning till her cheeks hurt!

[tearingup]

They will definitely do that.

[toblameforit]

But alas, they cannot carry on making out literally forever.

So during one of the inevitable lulls, in which Tony is sprawled contentedly about 30% on pillows to 70% on Ripper, he lifts his head from Ripper's shoulder and says, "We should totally make a pillow fort."

[tearingup]

"...Yeah," says Ripper, "we should."

[keyed_up]

"I am so promoting myself to a participatory role for pillow fort!"

[tearingup]

Ripper beams at her.

[toblameforit]

So does Tony.

Then he snuggles down against Ripper for a prolonged celebratory pre-pillow-fort kiss.

[keyed_up]

Soph giggles and starts categorizing pillows.

[toblameforit]

Tony sits up and notices that she is doing that.

"Wow, awesome, you're the best, I love you," he says, beaming some more.

[keyed_up]

"I love you too! I mean I figured we are going to be doing serious architecture, here, I remember you with the gingerbread, so there will be no going 'now where did I put that one lego, I mean pillow'."

[toblameforit]

"You are right," says Tony. He rubs his hands together gleefully.

[tearingup]

Ripper giggles.

[keyed_up]

Soph leans over to kiss Tony, too (who doesn't want to kiss Tony?) and then resumes pillow-sorting.